11 November 2020

48 links · Wednesday

c9fe/22120

:classical_building: 22120 - Self-host the Internet with an Offline Archive. Like binaries? https://github.com/dosyago/22120/releases Similar to ArchiveBox, SingleFile and WebMemex, but gooderer. -...

Astonishing Performance of .NET 5

I migrated Fusion to .NET 5 today — and honestly, I was absolutely shocked by the performance boost it brings:

Architect successful workloads on Azure

David Stanford joins David Blank-Edelman to talk about architecting successful workloads on Azure using the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework.

How to Kick Off Your Career with Custom Vision

📺 Stream #AllAroundAzure no. 043 Episode 43 introduces Mikolaj Sienkiewicz, a Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador to the show to discuss Azure's Custom Vision. Mikolaj shares his experience in the Im

Introduction to Linear Algebra for Applied Machine Learning with Python

Linear algebra is to machine learning as flour to bakery: every machine learning model is based in linear algebra, as every cake is based in flour. It is not the only ingredient, of course. Machine learning models need vector calculus, probability, and optimiz…

Wifi Dabba

Our goal at Wifi Dabba is to lower the cost of broadband access in India. We use lasers instead of underground fiber as our core network and commodity components to dramatically lower the cost of deploying a broadband network. We'v…

Wayve | Disrupting Autonomous Driving

Join us for an exceptional conversation with Alex Kendall, co-founder, and CEO of Wayve, who raised more than 40M$ to kickstart the biggest vehicle academy. Alex shares the technology that powers Wa

The hidden callout: The destructor | The Old New Thing

This is a general problem, but I’m going to give a specific example. C++ standard library collections do not support concurrent mutation. It is the caller’s responsibility to serialize mutation operations, and to ensure that no mutation occurs at the same time…

Talking C# Performance with Steve Gordon | Guest Series

We're talking C# Performance! I'm chatting with Steve Gordon to talk about writing performant C# code. When should you be concerned about performance? Does your application code need to be performant? At what cost to readability? How do you measure and tes…

Tech Leaders on the Future of Remote Work

Dozens of top leaders and thinkers from the tech industry and beyond recently joined us for a series of fireside chats commemorating Cloudflare’s 10th birthday. Here are some of the highlights.

My Little Crony

An interactive visualization of Tory cronyism during the pandemic

Dealing with large documents (100+ MB)

RavenDB can handle large documents. There actually is a limit to the size of a document in RavenDB, but given that it is 2 GB in size, that isn’t a practical...

Monsters Weekly 190 - Using Elastic Query on SQL Azure

SQL Azure doesn’t let you run queries between database instances. But if you’re migrating off on premise databases where you’ve been able to do that you probably don’t want to rewrite a bunch of code.

.NET 5 on AWS | Amazon Web Services

As long time .NET developers, many of us here at AWS share in the excitement for the GA release of .NET 5. When benchmark results were announced at .NET Conf this summer, these results validated the focus on increasing performance over its predecessor — .NET C…

My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania

In 2019, I was on the election board as a machine inspector for the primary election, the first election when the new voting machines were in use. And it's a good thing that I was — the opportunity to learn how the machines work, and to refine the voting proce…

Visual Studio Preview

Be the first to access the future of Visual Studio 2019. Get the preview today and try out new features not yet released in Visual Studio

amymhaddad

Learn how to program effectively: the programming skills you need to master and the topics you need to learn, and the best ways to learn them.

How to beat the bank

Build something no one else can measure.

Microsoft Releases .NET 5

Earlier today, at .NET Conf 2020, Microsoft released .NET 5. The new release focuses on improvements of .NET Core 3.1: smaller single-file applications, support for Windows ARM64, and more capable JsonSerializer APIs are among the key features of .NET 5, along…

Executive

Executive is not a real job, but if it were here would be its description

Eleven Years of Go - The Go Blog

Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software.

Voting Systems

Voting in politics and in software applications isn't as simple as it may seem. Here I discuss designing some basic voting systems and analyze their intricacies, pros, and cons.

Netflix's Biggest Competitor is Choice — Ari Lewis

Well, isn't Netflix simple? Open the app and start watching something. Yes, in practice. No, in theory. When do you actually go on Netflix and start watching something immediately? Rarely, if ever. How many times have you thought about watching something new t…

GA Election Resources | Fair Fight

GEORGIA VOTERS! January 5, 2021 Senate RunoffElection Resources for Georgians En Español (Haz click aquí.) Georgia voters, it’s time – again! There are runoff elections for BOTH of our US Senate seats coming up fast. The runoff elections will take place on Tue…